This Is My Story of Letting Go, Lightening Up, Creating the Business I dreamed of, and Falling Back in Love With Life
WHEN I RECONNECTED WITH WHO I TRULY AM, EVERYTHING SHIFTED — MY INNER WORLD, MY WORK, AND THE WAY SUCCESS ARRIVED.
Life and work stopped being something I had to chase or fix.
They became something I could trust, enjoy, and fully experience.
That inner shift became the foundation of my business, my freedom, and everything I now teach.
Hi, I’m Michaela Weaver — TEDx speaker, best-selling author, business specialist, and a woman who discovered that the only sustainable success is the kind that begins within.
For decades, I watched high-performing women reach midlife with full lives yet an empty space inside — accomplished, capable, but quietly wondering:
Is this really it?
I knew that feeling well. It was the beginning of my awakening, and the origin of the work I now share.
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This is the story.
For 25 years, I was a management consultant and executive coach, working with start-ups, corporate teams, and even the UK Cabinet Office. I specialised in systems, performance, customer experience, and behavioural change — long before the online coaching world existed.
I designed training programmes, structured learning pathways, and helped leaders transform both culture and results.
From the outside, I was thriving.
On the inside, I was striving — always trying to earn the peace that never came.
No one saw the quiet pressure I carried.
Or the hum of “not enough yet” that followed me everywhere — from boardrooms to home life to meditation cushions.
I grew up asking big questions.
I was raised in a home where a physicist father welcomed debate and curiosity.
But somewhere along the way, I lost my connection to that inner truth.
A move from London to rural Wales at nine left me feeling uprooted and uncertain.
Subconsciously, I decided I had to work hard to feel safe. That belief shaped decades of my life.
I became outwardly capable, inwardly unsettled.
The queen of adapting.
A stranger to myself.
No matter how much I achieved, something still felt missing — always just out of reach. So I pushed harder. Worked more. Over-gave. Over-thought. Over-everything.
Raising three children alone while running a business etched resilience into me, but it also deepened the disconnect.
I was doing life.
But I wasn’t in my life.
I didn’t yet know that what I was seeking wasn’t out in the world — it was buried beneath the noise in my own mind.
I worked hard, played hard…
I also worried hard.
MY MIND HAD TAKEN ME DOWN A LABYRINTH OF FEAR, SELF-DOUBT, FEELING SMALL IN A HUGE AND UNSAFE WORLD.
My inner reality was completely different to what others saw.
Laying the foundations for everything I teach today
My corporate years taught me structure, systems, design, process, clarity, and strategic transformation.
Awakening taught me the missing part — inner alignment.
When I finally connected the outer mechanics of change with the inner mechanics of consciousness, everything clicked into place.
This integration became the foundation of my signature 2-Track Method™:
WHO you are + HOW you build.
Identity and implementation.
Presence and strategy.
Inner alignment and outer clarity.
The mantra in my childhood home was:
‘QUESTION EVERYTHING.’
It took decades to realise the most important question wasn't about the world—it was about the one experiencing it.
My awakening felt like being pulled out of a story I didn't know I was trapped inside.
One moment, I was running — striving, fixing, surviving.
The next, I could see the entire mental movie I’d been living in… and understood: none of it was real.
The noise dropped.
Peace arrived.
Not as an achievement — as my true nature.
I saw how the ego (the “mini-me”) tries to protect us by keeping us small, busy, and afraid.
The only way out wasn’t more doing.
It was a different level of being.
A paradigm shift.
I often talk about happiness and the trap of unhappiness as the 'game of opposites'.
When we know that nothing is as it seems and that everything is up for questioning, then we also begin to see that beliefs close to us that actually cause us harm, are not to be believed in either.
These beliefs are part of the human shadow, self-protect mechanism, or mini-me.
They are based on a belief that the self needs to be protected, and in an effort to do that, the mini-me does the very thing that causes the need for protection! It’s a paradox, and the way out is a paradigm shift of thinking and consciousness.
This is the essence of my work today — not self-improvement but self-remembrance.
A return to the clarity and freedom that were always there beneath the noise.
I stopped chasing wholeness.
I began living from it.
MY AWAKENING TO SELF-REDISCOVERY AND A DEEP PEACE AND HAPPINESS
After my paradigm shift, I became used to living in a world where other people’s realities were shaped by mental narratives.
I saw the illusion in those stories—just as I had seen through my own.
Over the years, I explored teachings across the spectrum—from neuroscience and psychology to non-duality, quantum theory to ancient mysticism.
And slowly, I began to live in peace. The noise dropped. Life became lighter.
What had once seemed overwhelming now felt spacious. I didn’t need to change anything.
I had discovered that happiness is not a state—it’s who we are when the seeking ends.
3 YEARS AFTER THIS SHIFT
I packed my motorbike and rode solo across Spain — not to escape, but to embody the woman I had become.
And in 2025, I strapped my laptop to a bike again and worked from remote Thai coastlines — proving that aligned business creates freedom, not pressure.
Five years ago, I built my first online wellbeing coaching business from £0 to £250K in 12 months.
Not through hustle.
But through clarity, simplicity, presence — and structure.
Before creating The Awakened Business Journey, I founded The Alcohol Coach — a global wellbeing platform supporting thousands of women. It remains part of my legacy and proof of what becomes possible when awakening meets strategy.
Business success wasn’t separate from my inner shift.
It was the expression of it.
And now, it’s what I help other women create too.
This is for you if you want:
A business that reflects who you’ve become — not who you were five years ago.
Not based on hustle, pressure, or endless strategies…
but built from clarity, alignment, and simple structure that actually works.
You're ready to become the WHO:
• Deep self-discovery
• Inner steadiness and confidence
• Truth, peace, fulfilment
• A way of working that honours your energy and your lived wisdom
• To stop overthinking and finally trust yourself in business
And you're ready to master the HOW:
• Clean messaging that attracts aligned clients
• A clear, simple signature offer
• Visibility that feels natural — not forced
• Pricing that reflects your value
• Systems that support freedom, not overwhelm
• Consistent income rooted in clarity, not chaos
My work blends coaching mastery, online business strategy, digital marketing, and signature program design with the deeper inner alignment that midlife women are uniquely ready for.
This is not just business coaching.
It’s the integration of high-level strategy with awakened presence — so your business becomes an extension of who you truly are.
I support women who are ready to build thriving wellbeing and transformational coaching businesses that reflect their truth — not their conditioning, not the noise online, and not the outdated models they were taught to follow.
When you stop striving to become someone and start building from the woman you already are, space opens.
And in that space, the real you rises — grounded, confident, powerful, unmistakably clear.
I work with women in the rich, unfolding chapters of midlife — women with depth, experience, and wisdom, who feel a quiet knowing that their next chapter is meant to be bigger, cleaner, and more aligned.
Women who sense that something new is calling — in their business, their visibility, their leadership, and their self-expression.
Women whose work is powerful…
but whose business hasn’t yet caught up.
Women ready to step into the clarity, confidence, simplicity, and scalable success they always felt inside, but never knew how to land externally.
Women who know the next chapter is built from truth, not pressure.
From alignment, not hustle.
From the awakened woman they are becoming.
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